Woodworking blog entries tagged with 'pva'

Update: 7 september 2010. As I do not have a lot of spare time for woodworking at the moment, I am submitting this blog for the contest, I hope you guys don’t mind that it is a little old
Here is a link to the final projects-
http://lumberjocks.com/projects/2542http://lumberjocks.com/projects/2559
http://lumberjocks.com/assets/pictures/projects/9436-438x.jpg?1233630507
After several e-mails requesting the plans for the Dan Walters cutting board I copied I decided to put some...

You ain’t ever gonna keep me down. Lyric spotters please feel free to comment.
I left you, last night, as I was hacking at the pattern board with a chisel. No, I’m not mad. I’ve done all the tests.
It worked. I repaired the pattern.
I re-placed the mask and all looks good.
Re-taped the pattern
I scored a knife line into the pattern,along the outside edge of the outer tape. In combination with a strip of Polycarbonate, which has a line scored on...

I’ve decided to make this one with wood from from my scrap bin
and my ‘Ebony Bits Box’
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I won’t bore you with the details but after a lot of cutting and sticking, using Viscose CA, I had made the pattern (with a few little modifications). This was glued onto a backing of 1.5mm Birch Aeroply, using PVA, and thickness sanded to 5mm. Hand sanded down to 600 grit and a couple of coats of spray acrylic (satin finish) later this is the result.
I have sto...

This is the blog of how I built Celtic NOT. The design is one of a recent series of overlapping circle designs. Originally there were two possible patterns
These are the original paper models. As you can see the more complicated of the two had an interwoven line on the sides of the box as well.
I eventually decided this pattern looked a bit too busy and opted for the simpler of the two.
The box was going to be Oak with Sycamore and Walnut stringing. I initially tried making t...